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Dec 18, 2021 · Could the Christmas classic It’s a Wonderful Life be based on a true story? Here’s more on the real Bedford Falls and the story behind George Bailey.
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It's a Wonderful Life is a 1946 American Christmas supernatural drama film produced and directed by Frank Capra. It is based on the short story and booklet "The Greatest Gift" self-published by Philip Van Doren Stern in 1943, which itself is loosely based on the 1843 Charles Dickens novella A Christmas Carol. [4]
- Cary Grant, Alfalfa and a big Christmas card. "It's a Wonderful Life" is based on "The Greatest Gift," a 1939 short story written by Philip Van Doren Stern.
- It's not a wonderful box office return. You'd think that given its "totally beloved by everyone" status, "It's a Wonderful Life" would have been embraced by both critics and the public alike immediately after its release.
- Will the real Bedford Falls please stand up? In name, the fictional burg of Bedford Falls is popularly thought to be a combination of Bedford Hills, a hamlet within the chichi Westchester County, New York, town of Bedford (home to Martha Stewart and a host of other high rollers that don't quite share the proletarian woes of George Bailey) and Seneca Falls, a more working-class village in New York's Fingers Lakes region near Rochester.
- Let it (faux) snow! Now that we've established that the town of Bedford Falls was not filmed on location in some sleepy upstate New York burg during the winter but on a massive studio backlot in the San Fernando Valley during the middle of the summer, you're probably wondering how Frank Capra made his fictional town look so darned wintry — fake snow and lots of it.
Oct 10, 2023 · Told by family nemesis, rival banker Henry Potter (Lionel Barrymore), he's worth more dead than alive, George decides to end his life. Yet, with the divine intervention of a bumbling angel named Clarence (Henry Travers), George gets a glimpse of a world without him and finds he really has had a wonderful life.
- William J. Wright
Dec 20, 2016 · Fans of It's a Wonderful Life know that the film takes place in a fictional town named Bedford Falls located somewhere in upstate New York—the region is identifiable thanks to various references to neighboring communities like Buffalo and Elmira throughout the movie—but what they may not know is that one town in particular bears an uncanny ...
Dec 16, 2021 · It’s a Wonderful Life struggles with presenting a multidimensional story of women in America in the first half of the 20th century. Minow argues that the portrayal of Mary and other women in...
Dec 24, 2017 · The classic film got its unlikely start as a humble Christmas card sent by a Rutgers University graduate. And its fictional Bedford Falls setting was actually inspired by a small town in...
